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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea."

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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
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"For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must be sought in that alone which is infinite, and the only thing infinite about us is that which is within us, our own soul. Neither the body, nor the mind, nor even our thoughts, nor the world we see around us, is infinite."

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